April 21, 2005, Thursday

FROM the recent Supreme Court decision supporting vouchers for religious schools to a lower court objection to the phrase ''one nation under God'' in the pledge of allegiance to wrangling over cloning, stem-cell research, euthanasia and genetic...

To the Editor: Re ''The Founders and the Torah,'' by Michael Novak (Op-Ed, Sept. 4): Mr. Novak laments that ''historians, political theorists and lawyers pay far too much attention to the least religious founders, like Jefferson.'' So much for...

To the Editor: Michael Novak (Op-Ed, Sept. 4) rightly noted our country's debt to the Jewish faith and language about God. Unfortunately, he tied all this to his familiar, unconstitutional proposal for school prayer drawn from language of the...

To the Editor: Does Michael Novak (Op-Ed, Sept. 4) mean to say only monotheists possess civility and thus civilization and that all others are ''barbarians'' who, having ''to rely on clubs,'' are devoid of any sense of truth? If this is what he...

To the Editor: Michael Novak informs us (Op-Ed, Sept. 4) that American Jews, Christians and Muslims concur with the religious language of the Declaration of Independence -- that God is ''Creator, Judge and Providence.'' That leaves, he says,...

To the Editor: Michael Novak's comparison of secularists to Victorians is troubling (Op-Ed, Sept. 4). Many believe that religion should be as private a matter as sex, and that both are too prevalent in our public life (witness their sanctimonious...

To the Editor: In the controversy over how religion should be introduced into the public schools (Op-Ed, June 18), there is one idea that, as far as I know, has not yet been proposed: Make comparative religion a required element of public school...

To the Editor: Michael Novak (Op-Ed, June 18) makes the assumption that it is atheists who oppose prayer in public schools, but as a Christian preacher I assure him that I believe it is best to keep government and the public schools out of the...